Inspired by an article entitled Make your Gulp modular, mixing elements of Gulp Starter but using the load-gulp-tasks package instead of require-dir, this template can be a good starting-point for gulp installations.
My reasons for choosing load-gulp-tasks over require-dir were mainly to avoid having repeated require('gulp') statements littering every task, since gulp is passed to each task in one solitary statement. I like Gulp Starter's use of a config.json file, however, and this idea works well with load-gulp-tasks, which can also pass option parameters in its main statement, as well as passing any required plugins.
Speaking of plugins, gulp-load-plugins is passed, by default, to the task being called, which I find convenient, even though it may increase plugin overhead.